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An application of TQFT to modular representation theory

Representation Theory 2018-05-23 v2 Geometric Topology Quantum Algebra

Abstract

For p>3 a prime, and g>2 an integer, we use Topological Quantum Field Theory (TQFT) to study a family of p-1 highest weight modules L_p(lambda) for the symplectic group Sp(2g,K) where K is an algebraically closed field of characteristic p. This permits explicit formulae for the dimension and the formal character of L_p(lambda) for these highest weights.

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@article{arxiv.1606.09532,
  title  = {An application of TQFT to modular representation theory},
  author = {Patrick M. Gilmer and Gregor Masbaum},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1606.09532},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

24 pages, 3 figures. v2: Lemma 3.1 and Appendix A added